British Transport Police confirms search policy change in light of gender ruling

Jessica_Rose · April 18, 2025, 08:22:29 AM

British Transport Police confirms search policy change in light of gender ruling

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Story by Aine Fox, Caitlin Doherty, Mathilde Grandjean and David Lynch (17 April 2025)

A police force has become one of the first to confirm it has changed its strip search policy in the fallout from the Supreme Court ruling on the definition of a woman.

British Transport Police (BTP) said a day after the judgment that it had adopted a new "interim position" which will see trans people held in custody strip searched by an officer in line with their birth sex.

This means trans women in custody will be searched by male officers, while officers who are trans women will no longer be able to search female detainees – although BTP stressed that someone can object and ask to be searched by another officer.

The public confirmation of a policy change came as the head of Britain's equalities watchdog said Wednesday's ruling means trans women cannot use single-sex female toilets or changing rooms or compete in women's sports.

Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) chairwoman Baroness Kishwer Falkner said the ruling by the UK's highest court was "enormously consequential", as she vowed to pursue organisations which do not update their policies.

The ruling that the terms woman and sex in the 2010 Equality Act "refer to a biological woman and biological sex" means transgender women with a gender recognition certificate (GRC) can be excluded from single-sex spaces if "proportionate", the Supreme Court said.

SoupSarah · April 18, 2025, 10:09:05 PM

But like who is being arrested by the BTP and saying 'oh hang on I'm trans!'... And so, as long as all your id is in order how is any one h going to know you intimate history?

Lori Dee · April 18, 2025, 10:59:43 PM

Quote from: Jessica_Rose on April 18, 2025, 08:22:29 AMalthough BTP stressed that someone can object and ask to be searched by another officer.

"No, I want that one to search me."

"Why?"

"He has bigger hands."

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British Transport Police confirms search policy change in light of gender ruling

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